We all know the drill. You toss your stained shirts and underwear into the washing machine, pour in a capful of bright blue ...

Rinse — no repeats. There may be a new invention that could significantly reduce the time spent doing laundry. Scientists in ...

A newly developed spray-on fabric coating could allow clothes to be cleaned using only water, reducing water and detergent needs.

Detergents may begin their journey by cleaning our clothes, but they end up contaminating the environment, flowing into ...

A team of University of Toronto Engineering researchers, led by Professor Kevin Golovin, have designed a solution to reduce the amount of microplastic fibres that are shed when clothes made of ...

Even if soy sauce, ketchup, or engine oil gets on a white shirt, rinsing with water alone makes it clean. That is because the fabric has a self-cleaning coating that blocks stains. With shorter wash ...